Daily Coping 14 Aug 2020

I started to add a daily coping tip to the SQLServerCentral newsletter and to the Community Circle, which is helping me deal with the issues in the world. I’m...

Setting default values for Array parameters/variables in Azure Data Factory

(2020-Aug-14) Setting default values for my parameters or variables in Azure Data Factory (ADF) may be a trivial task, but it gets more interesting when those elements are Arrays....

Daily Coping 13 Aug 2020

I started to add a daily coping tip to the SQLServerCentral newsletter and to the Community Circle, which is helping me deal with the issues in the world. I’m...

SQL Homework – August 2020 – More DML Triggers

Well, I’m running a bit late. Both for this month and the fact I completely missed last month. It was ... Continue reading

Your First Databricks Notebook

On August 4, 2020, I presented this on the weekly Pragmatic Works webinar series. You can view that presentation here. As part of that presentation, I committed to give...

SQL Clone Works with FILESTREAM

SQL Clone is an amazing product that virtualizes your data, allowing multiple instances to share a read only image, but still produce writeable databases that look normal to SQL...

Fun and profit with UTF-8

When SQL Server 2019 was announced, it brought with it UTF-8 support. Also available in Azure SQL Database, UTF-8 is exciting if you have a legacy database and application...

Data Platform MVP 2020

I am humbled to be among so many great professionals and honored at the same time for having been chosen.
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Daily Coping 12 Aug 2020

I started to add a daily coping tip to the SQLServerCentral newsletter and to the Community Circle, which is helping me deal with the issues in the world. I’m...

Caution When Dropping Unused Indexes on an Azure SQL Database

Index Maintenance is an important aspect of database health. Above and beyond regular index rebuilds and reorganizations it is important to understand the usage of the indexes on your...